AHRQ wants to hear from you to help improve the QI program. We would like to better understand how different organizations use the AHRQ QIs and/or other quality measures, challenges and barriers these organizations face, and what resources are helpful in using measurement to guide quality improvement efforts.

If you are involved in quality improvement efforts within care delivery or quality improvement-focused organizations, we want to hear from you! Please complete the AHRQ Quality Indicator (QI) Survey. The survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Your feedback will help AHRQ make improvements to AHRQ QI resources (e.g., Hospital QI Toolkit), the QI software, and overall improvements to enhance your experience with the AHRQ QI program. Thank you!

May 16, 2018 - This update concerns all versions of Area-level AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs) beginning with v4.4 - The AHRQ QI Program discovered that the QI Population Files contain some inaccurate county-level age- sex- and race-specific county population estimates beginning with 2012 calendar year. These files are currently under review. In the interim, we have temporarily removed, these QI Population Files and the WinQI software program which embeds QI Population Files, as well as all related documentation from the AHRQ website. We encourage users to compute the area-level indicator rates with their own population files. As a result, the links to archived population files and WinQI software are disabled.

This primarily affects the Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs), although a few area-level indicators are embedded in the other three QI modules [Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDI 14-PDI 18. PDI 90-PDI 92), Patient Safety Indicator(PSI 21-PSI 27, all of which were retired in v7.0), and Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI 26-IQI 29, all of which were retired in v7.0)]. Click here for details

March 26, 2018 - Release of 2018 AHRQ MapIT software - The MapI T tool has been updated to use FYI 18 data to facilitate conversion of set names to ICD-10-CM/PCS codes. The Software Users Guide provides detailed information on installing and using the software and exporting and using the results.

March 26, 2018 - Release of 2018 AHRQ MapIT software - The MapIT tool has been updated to use FYI 18 data to facilitate conversion of set names to ICD-10-CM/PCS codes. The Software Users Guide provides detailed information on installing and using the software and exporting and using the results.

March 2, 2018 - Opportunity for Public Comment on Scientific Acceptability of AHRQ QIs for Quality Improvement efforts. Through a Request for Information (RFI), AHRQ is seeking input from the public, hospitals and other healthcare organizations, clinicians, quality improvement experts, researchers, and quality measure developers about current use of the AHRQ Quality Indicators (AHRQ QIs) for quality improvement efforts. Please see the link to the RFI here: - 2018-03243. The deadline to receive the comments is Mar 20, 2018, the link to the extended deadline can be found here: 2018-03964.

March 9, 2017 - AHRQ announcement regarding the removal and replacement of the v6.0 PSI Software Package for SAS QI and WinQI from QualityIndicators.AHRQ.GOV and future replacement plan.
Further details are available here.

2016

November 9, 2016 - The Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite for the International Classification of Diseases,
9th Revision, Clinical Modification v6.0 ICD-9-CM, 2016, is an updated and modified version of the Patient Safety Indicator for Selected Indicators Composite (v5.0 and prior).
Further details about these changes are available in the updated factsheet here: PSI 90 Fact Sheet

August 31, 2016 - The Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite for the International Classification of Diseases,
9th Revision, Clinical Modification v6.0 ICD-9-CM, 2016, is an updated and modified version of the Patient Safety Indicator for Selected Indicators Composite (v5.0 and prior).
Further details about these changes are available in the updated factsheet here: PSI 90 Fact Sheet

April 29, 2016 - The Patient Safety and Adverse Events Composite for the International Classification of Diseases,
9th Revision, Clinical Modification v6.0 ICD-9-CM, 2016, is an updated and modified version of the Patient Safety Indicator for Selected Indicators Composite (v5.0 and prior).
Highlights of the changes in the modified version include:

Updated reference population using the 2013 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases from 36 participating states that provide complete “present on admission” information

Modified composite weighting approach to include both volume and harms of associated with an adverse event.
Further details about these changes are available in the factsheet here: PSI 90 Fact Sheet

March 13, 2015 — Release of Alpha ICD-10 software.
The ICD-10 Alpha software can be used to test ICD-10 data that has been converted, in order to assess any impacts as a result of that data conversion.
This software – currently in the Alpha stage – was developed to help organizations convert to the use of ICD-10 codes and address technical challenges that may arise in the process.

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